Here we've displayed a list of the best Death Row films : Dancer in the Dark(2000), The Thin Blue Line(1988), Just Mercy(2019), I Want to Live!(1958), The Noose(1928), The Rising of the Moon(1957), Shepherds and Butchers(2016), The Hoodlum Priest(1961), The 7th Dawn(1964), Return to Sender(2004), Black Friday(1940), True Story(2015) ... ...
Drama
Denmark|Germany|Netherlands|Italy|UK|France|Sweden|Finland|Iceland|Argentina|Norway|Taiwan|Belgium
2000
140 Minutes
Björk Catherine Deneuve David Morse Peter Stormare Joel Grey Vincent Paterson Cara Seymour Jean-Marc Barr Vladica Kostic Udo Kier Zeljko Ivanek
single mother son neighbor coworker emotional dreamy disturbing small town united states blindness robbery death row music mother/son relationship quest 2000s
An East European girl travels to the United States with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
Documentary
USA
1988
106 Minutes
drifter murderer petty criminal judge psychiatrist cop dark disturbing shocking powerful texas prison courtroom injustice murder corruption death row mystery underdog quest
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
Drama
USA
2019
136 Minutes
Michael B. Jordan Jamie Foxx Brie Larson Rob Morgan Tim Blake Nelson Rafe Spall O'Shea Jackson Jr. Karan Kendrick Drew Scheid Steve Coulter Mary Kraft
defense attorney death row inmate wrongly accused emotional disheartening passionate powerful alabama courtroom prison death row wrongful conviction murder case racism politics rescue quest underdog fall discovery
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Biography
USA
1958
120 Minutes
Susan Hayward Simon Oakland Virginia Vincent Theodore Bikel Wesley Lau Philip Coolidge James Philbrook Joe De Santis
petty criminal journalist thief attorney psychologist raw tense cheeky emotional san francisco los angeles san quentin federal penitentiary crime death row court battles morality murder journalism fall wretched excess
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
Drama
USA
1928
75 Minutes
Richard Barthelmess Montagu Love Robert E. O'Connor Jay Eaton Lina Basquette Thelma Todd Ed Brady Fred Warren William B. Davidson Alice Joyce William Walling
blackmailer governor wife mother son father melodramatic shocking tense suspenseful death row city cabaret prison murder capital punishment blackmail father/son relationship crime family
A crook blackmails a governor because of knowing his wife's dark past.
Drama
Ireland
1957
81 Minutes
Cyril Cusack Noel Purcell Jimmy O'Dea Jack MacGowran Tony Quinn Paul Farrell Kevin Casey Maureen Potter
inspector friend englishman train passenger nationalist sergeant witty inspiring ireland dunfaill station galway, ireland irish civil war morality political activism death row british-irish relations irish life escape sacrifice discovery
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault... See full summary »
Drama
South Africa|USA|Germany
2016
106 Minutes
Andrea Riseborough Steve Coogan Deon Lotz Robert Hobbs Garion Dowds Marcel van Heerden Nicola Hanekom Eduan van Jaarsveldt Carel Nel
lawyer prison guard judge wife murderer prisoner prisoners death row inmate brutal chilling emotional gripping intense moving powerful raw sad shocking south africa cape town
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Biography
USA
1961
101 Minutes
Don Murray Larry Gates Keir Dullea Logan Ramsey Cindi Wood Don Joslyn Sam Capuano Vince O'Brien Al Mack Lou Martini
priest ex-convict reporter gritty somber powerful st. louis slum prison halfway house justice rehabilitation death row crime religion transformation underdog quest rescue 1960s
Based on the life of Fr. Charles Clark, a minister to street gangs.
Action
UK|USA
1964
123 Minutes
William Holden Susannah York Capucine Tetsuro Tamba Michael Goodliffe Allan Cuthbertson Maurice Denham Sydney Tafler Beulah Quo Hugh Robinson David Keith
businessman girlfriend revolutionary daughter tense gritty thrilling fiery british malaya jungle guerrilla warfare political coup unusual friendship death row hostage situation world war ii pursuit rescue 1950s
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Drama
Denmark|USA|UK
2004
109 Minutes
Connie Nielsen Aidan Quinn Kelly Preston Sara-Marie Maltha Randy Colton Mark Ryan Mark Holton Tim Daly
inmate lawyer brother-in-law pen pal judge woman melodramatic tense suspenseful prison courtroom house cell death row kidnapping prison life secrets truth murder investigation
While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client.
Horror
USA
1940
70 Minutes
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Stanley Ridges Anne Nagel Anne Gwynne Virginia Brissac Edmund MacDonald Paul Fix Murray Alper Jack Mulhall Joe King
doctor professor mobster rival wife reporter tense creepy prison office street death row madness brain transplants organized crime murder death sentence mind control revenge pursuit
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2015
104 Minutes
Jonah Hill James Franco Felicity Jones Robert John Burke Gretchen Mol Ethan Suplee Maria Dizzia Connor Kikot Charlotte Driscoll Stella Rae Payne Byron Jennings
journalist thief murder suspect wife police detective judge brooding dark emotional office woods prison courtroom new york city street identity theft murder death row trial danger
When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
1940
71 Minutes
mad scientist doctor prisoner daughter police captain fiancé creepy dark eerie suspenseful prison laboratory house death row aging scientific experiments murder prison life euthanasia father/daughter relationship
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|Canada|UK
2008
100 Minutes
Paul Walker Piper Perabo Brooklynn Proulx Bob Gunton Lambert Wilson Linda Cardellini Tony Curran Malcolm Goodwin Ross McMillan Aaron Hughes
prisoner inmate convict thrilling hospital death row truth job robbery mystery
A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.
Drama
USA
1939
73 Minutes
Victor McLaglen Sally Eilers Joseph Calleia Barry Fitzgerald Elisabeth Risdon Adele Pearce Bud McTaggart John Bliefer William Haade George Humbert
catholic priest innocent man murder suspect murderer cop night watchman suspenseful tense church prison store police station death row religious vows injustice wrongfully accused murder confession moral dilemma discovery
A Catholic priest by the name of Father Loma must convince a man to step forward to save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair.
Drama
USA
1996
111 Minutes
Chris O'Donnell Gene Hackman Faye Dunaway Robert Prosky Raymond J. Barry Bo Jackson Lela Rochon David Marshall Grant
lawyer prisoner klansman grandfather aunt governor dark gripping suspenseful jail mississippi household courtroom office family history court battles death row racism ku klux klan murder
A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2009
95 Minutes
Gerard Butler Mark Neveldine Michael C. Hall Amber Valletta Logan Lerman Terry Crews Kyra Sedgwick Alison Lohman Chris "Ludacris" Bridges John Alberto Leguizamo Zoë Bell
prisoner teen boy talk show host game designer hacker wife brutal unrestrained thrilling factory talk show prison battlefield truck hotel virtual reality mind control death row video games shoot-out
In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free.
Comedy
USA
1985
83 Minutes
Louise Lasser Paul L. Smith Brion James Sheree J. Wilson Edward R. Pressman Bruce Campbell Reed Birney Hamid Dana
technician hit man partner business owner love interest neighbor madcap outlandish amusing apartment building store jail car death row business contract killing framed for murder imprisonment quest revenge
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
Comedy
USA
1990
81 Minutes
Jim Varney Gailard Sartain Bill Byrge Barbara Tyson Barry Scott Randall Cobb Dan Leegant Charles Napier Jim Conrad Jackie Welch Jeffrey Buckner Ford
janitor murder suspect bank teller defense attorney prison guard prisoner amusing playful outlandish offbeat bank courtroom house death row execution chamber bank robbery wrongful conviction switched identities death sentence prison life
Bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is called to jury duty and soon finds himself in trouble when the lookalike defendant's attorney arranges a switch and has Ernest sent to prison in his client's place.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany
2002
98 Minutes
Steven Seagal Morris Chestnut Ja Rule Nia Peeples Tony Plana Kurupt Claudia Christian Linda Thorson Bruce Weitz Mo'Nique Stephen J. Cannell
master criminal death row inmate fbi agent warden prison guard brutal engaging intricate helicopter death row alcatraz prison infirmary gold robbery friendship prison riot betrayal wretched excess pursuit escape
This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
Drama
2002
108 Minutes
Courtney B. Vance Gil Bellows Eamonn Walker Chuck Shamata Mark Taylor Barbara Barnes-Hopkins Ted Atherton Joe Bostick Gary Brennan Chris Collins Rufus Crawford
lawyer city official district attorney prisoner janitor student rousing tense powerful prison courtroom high school murder innocence conspiracy justice racism death row underdog rescue
A black janitor (Courtney B. Vance) receives public support after he is wrongfully convicted of murdering a Texas teenager.
Crime, Drama
1956
99 Minutes
woman death row inmate murderer murder victim cheater bleak disheartening dark suspenseful tense england prison death row street revenge abuse cheating murder death row fall
In the shadow of her impending execution, an anguished woman recounts the chain of events which drove her to murder.
Crime, Drama
1955
84 Minutes
Farley Granger Anthony Quinn Anne Bancroft Peter Graves Sara Berner Jerry Paris Mario Siletti Else Bäck
criminal pregnant woman mobster mother district attorney reporter melodramatic suspenseful uneasy gritty death row jail family home brooklyn bridge new york city apartment frame-up death sentence mafia corruption
A reporter follows the story of a gangster (Anthony Quinn), his sister (Anne Bancroft) and her small-time hoodlum husband (Farley Granger).
Mystery & Thriller
2000
100 Minutes
Isabella Hofmann James Wilder Erin Gray Jerry Wasserman Donnelly Rhodes Brent Stait Garry Chalk Hiro Kanagawa
reporter death row inmate boyfriend judge district attorney sheriff melodramatic shocking suspenseful small town prison courtroom bedroom bar wrongful conviction death row murder suspicion moral dilemma small-town life
A reporter (Isabella Hofmann) believes a murderer (James Wilder) on death row is innocent and fights to overturn his conviction.
Action
1986
120 Minutes
Dilip Kumar Nutan Behl Anupam Kher Naseeruddin Shah Jackie Shroff Anil Kapoor Waheeda Rahman
prison guard terrorist death row inmate son daughter-in-law grandchild dark frenetic tense sad india prison village vigilantism murder terrorism death row fugitives vengeance revenge